Other stuff, and Power Management

[Richard Hughes]

On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 10:18 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> The firmware does not support SD yet.  It hasn't been a priority...

No worries, just making sure I'm not being an idiot ;-)

> The power button should turn off the machine if you hold it in for 4 
> seconds, just like on a PC.  More complicated instant power management, 
> like suspend, is not yet implemented.  The power button does generate 
> keycodes, but the OS infrastructure to handle them is not yet ready for 
> prime time.

Sure. I'll see what I can do to help about that.

> The brightness level is changed by sending commands to the DCON chip via 
> SMBUS.  The kernel does the talking to SMBUS; OF is not running once the 
> kernel takes control.

So can we just use the backlight kernel class? Writing a new value
didn't seem to be working for me.

> I don't know the answers to the rest of your questions.

No worries, thanks for the quick reply.

Richard.